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Qualifier Conventions

• When specifying constants in qualifiers, the constant must be enclosed in single quotes. For example, priority '9' or START-TIME =< '0800'.
• The following entries must be prefixed with the @ symbol:
  • A user-defined complex unit. For example, CPU-TIME, must be entered as @CPU-TIME. The @ symbol allows CA PMA Chargeback to differentiate between user-defined entry names and names that have a direct one-to-one relationship with ORDs available to the DataManager application.
  • Qualifier names, such as SHIFT1, SHIFT2 must also have the @ prefix: @SHIFT1, @SHIFT2.
• You can assign an ORD type of ALL to qualifier definitions. This means the qualifier is applied globally to all ORDs.
• ORD-specific qualifiers are always applied before global qualifiers (those with an ORD type of ALL).